Stephen Forte to speak at N3UG

January 2, 2006 Parsippany, NJ – SetFocus, a New Jersey based .NET Training company as well as host and sponsor of the Northern New Jersey .NET User Group (www.n3ug.org), announced today it will host Stephen Forte at its next User Group meeting, January 10, 2006.

Stephen Forte is the Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of Corzen, Inc, a Manhattan (USA) based provider of online market research data for Wall Street Firms. Stephen is also the Microsoft Regional Director for the NY Metro region as well as an MVP and INETA speaker. He speaks regularly at industry conferences like Tech*Ed, North Africa Developers Conference and other conferences around the world. He is an author of Programming SQL Server 2005 (MSPress) as well as other books on application and database development. Prior to Corzen, Stephen served as the CTO of Zagat Survey in New York City and also was co-founder and CTO of the New York based software consulting firm The Aurora Development Group. He currently is the co-moderator and founder of the NYC .NET Developer User Group.

The January 10th presentation, titled Design Patterns in ASP .NET 2.0, will show developers how to modularize the user interface functionality to easily modify individual parts, how to architect the right model for the right application, and how to optimize your architecture to truly reuse code. This event will be sponsored by INETA, The International .NET Association, a non-profit independent organization, chartered with supporting all user groups interested in the Microsoft .NET Platform.

About the Northern New Jersey .NET User Group

The Northern New Jersey .NET User Group meets the 2nd Tuesday of every month at SetFocus’ Parsippany based training facility (4 Century Drive Parsippany, NJ). The mission of the User Group is to develop Northern New Jersey’s software development community. Its goal is to bring together .NET developers, architects, managers, and individuals with an interest to hear industry leaders and guest speakers in a forum which promotes an exchange of knowledge and experiences within the .NET development platform. The Northern New Jersey .NET User Group is a Charter Member of INTEA (www.ineta.org).

About SetFocus

SetFocus is a unique training organization that provides the most current and cutting edge technologies in the training market for developers and corporations nationwide. Specializing in Microsoft’s .NET technologies. Training is offered at SetFocus’ locations in Parsippany and Jersey City, New Jersey (USA) as well as remotely through The GRID®. SetFocus offers courses at the introductory, intermediate, and advanced levels and all are delivered by our experienced solution developer/trainers who teach from a practical perspective enhanced with tips, techniques, and code samples to enhance rapid application development. A Gold Microsoft Certified Partner for Learning Solutions (CPLS), SetFocus is highly regarded in the Microsoft Learning Solutions Arena. SetFocus has won semi-finalist awards for both the 2001 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year as well as the 2004 New Jersey Family Business of the Year. SetFocus can be reached at 973-889-0211 and through its website, www.setfocus.com.

CONTACT INFORMATION:

Jonathan Lefkowitz
Director of Marketing
SetFocus, LLC
Jlefkowitz@setfocus.com
(973) 889-0211 ext. 15
(973) 889-0213 (fax)